Recalling simpler times of heroes and the girl next door

Posted by John Small | Apr 21, 2021 | Small Talk

I can’t remember now exactly how the subject came up, but a few years back I found myself standing in the parking lot of the Tishomingo Post Office reminiscing with one of our community’s more prominent public figures (I won’t embarrass him by identifying him publicly) about the affection we shared as kids for reading […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Recalling simpler times of heroes and the girl next door

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